Can creative thinking improve learning?
For this study, Nadler and her colleagues looked at a particular kind of learning that is improved by creative thinking.
Students who took part in the study were put into different moods and then given a category learning task to do (they learned to classify sets of pictures with visually complex patterns).
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Creativity and Play
Play isn’t anarchic — play has rules.
Learning to play again will help you be more creative by making you fearless like a child.
Tim Brown explains the fundamental theories behind why companies like Google and Pixar invest so much time effort and money into making playful atmospheres for their people to work in.
He tells us how you too can put toge.
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Creativity Under Pressure
Can you be brilliant, prolific and healthy all at the same time.
That’s a question Todd Henry is fascinated with.
He says the usual process when a deadline looms is to panic – then explore the first or most comfortable option – then execute in a hurry.
Sound familiar.
Well, there is another attitude to take.
As Todd says: “mount a perpetual assault.
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Does Humor encourage creative risk-taking?
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Humor encourages creative risk-taking.
There is a very real vulnerability to humor, because, whether we want to admit it or not, we are trying to be humorous . . or at least witty.
For example, when I wrote the following on the board, I had no idea if students would think this was stupid:. ,
Everything Is A Remix
The term remix comes from music but applies unreservedly to all creativity, whether you’re fuelling your art by stealing bass lines, scenes from movies or parts of 17th-century poems.
This 50-minute film will help you feel good about playing your part in a great artistic tradition: collecting material, combining it with other ‘stolen goods’ and tra.
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How Empathy Fuels The Creative Process
Empathy sells.
And like David Ogilvy said: "If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative”.
Ergo, no empathy, no creativity = no sales.
That wouldn’t do now, would it.
So if you want an EQ boost, look no further than this 18 minute Ted talk from Seung Chan Lim - aka Slim - who has an exciting take on empathy that will make you reconsider how you cater to d.
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How to Build Creative Confidence
Don’t wait a moment when you’re not feeling confident to watch this one.
This video will empower you to deal with those moments when you or someone else is not overly impressed with your work.
It’ll help you get over a fear of being judged for saying or doing the wrong thing and also suggest processes to push you on to do amazingly innovative thing.
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Is your mood helping you think more creatively?
They may be taking advantage of the latest psychological science—putting themselves in a good mood so they can think more creatively. “Generally, positive mood has been found to enhance creative problem solving and flexible yet careful thinking,” says Ruby Nadler, a graduate student at the University of Western Ontario.
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Six Characteristics of Truly Creative People
Sometimes it’s good to check out how big corporates do creativity, and possibly the easiest way to get a handle on that mindset is to watch this 19-minute video by another Stanford professor and author of 17 books, Tina Seelig.
From this video, it seems the focus of her work is to get people who aren’t ever so creative to work with an innovation fr.
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Steal Like An Artist
Maybe you’ve read this book, but if you haven’t, this Ted Talk is the perfect introduction to the comforting and motivating words of Austin Kleon.
Austin Kleon is an artist and writer living in Austin, Texas.
He’s published three books: two self-help manuals for creatives and one collection of poems invented by using a marker pen to cross unnecessa.
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The Gap
“She got gaps, I got gaps, together we fill gaps”, said that old philosopher Rocky Balboa.
But what if you’re suffering a creative gap, where your exquisite taste is outstripping your current abilities…how do you move forward from that.
Photographer/filmmaker Daniel Saxmade this gorgeous two-minute film featuring the sage words of American radio pe.
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What Creativity Is Trying to Tell You
“No-one really gets taught creativity.
It is individual as it is universal”.
Here Jonathan Tilley shares the pivotal experiences that define creativity for him, talking through his experiences working in the theatre.
He talks of creativity being a force that carries us like the wind, but it has its own needs too, such a sacred space to breathe in. .
American film and television production company
Creative Differences Productions, Inc. is an American film and television production company that is headquartered in Pasadena, California and was founded in 1995 by Erik Nelson.
